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Top 10 Open Source Software 2017 - Web Project Builder

The main purpose of this Blog article is to make people aware about the new open source tools that are much popular today. This article will interest Web developers who use open source tools.

The thousands of open source tools now a days, we have tried to list the best between them. It’s not been so simple to arrive at this list, especially coz many different peoples have many different, personal favourites.

Node.js

Node.js – It is a JavaScript runtime make on Google Chrome’s V8 JavaScript engine. It’s an open source cross-platform runtime environment for building server-side Web applications. Node.js manage an event-driven, non-blocking I/O model, which makes it faster & more efficient. Ryan Dahl is the real author of Node.js. Its release was on May 27, 2009.

AngularJS

AngularJS is a JavaScript framework for dynamic Web apps. It’s best for one-page Web applications. AngularJS supports filters & data-binding with HTML attributes. It has support for form validation & DOM handling. It was originally created by Google & open sourced under the MIT licences.IT is Developed by Brat Tech LLC, Google & the community, it’s release was in 2009.

Brackets

Brackets – It is a most popular open source code editor for HTML, CSS & JavaScript. It is developed by Adobe & written in HTML, CSS & JavaScript itself. Brackets makes development much faster, as it supports a live preview. It was firstly released on November 4, 2014.

Bootstrap

Bootstrap is a free, open source tool, known well for fast development of responsive designs. It has a set of its own classes & grids, buttons, forms, navigation, containers, media queries & JavaScript extensions. IT (Bootstrap) is the most-starred project on GitHub, with over 91,000 stars & more than 38,000 forks.

LESS

LESS – It is a CSS pre-processor, so it has a syntax that is related to CSS. LESS supports plenty of features that can speed your Website development. It provides features that allow mixins, variables, functions & so many other techniques that permit you to make CSS more maintainable, themeable & extendable. Its developed by Alexis Sellier.

Atom

Atom – It is one of the favourite text editors now. Atom developers call it, A hackable text editor for twenty first century. Atom is open source & supports cross-platform editing. Atom has the help of a built-in package manager, AngularJS support, smart auto-completion, Atom TypeScript, Jshint, & turbo-JavaScript, which can be more helpful for quick Web development.

XAMPP

XAMPP – It is an open source, cross-platform tool, which is a best among Web developers. The full form of XAMPP is – X-Cross platform, Apache, MariaDB, PHP & Perl. Earlier, it is used to MySQL instead of MariaDB. XAMPP is a complete package of these libraries, so developers don’t need to worry about installing & configuring PHP, MariaDB & Apache. It’s the easiest way to set up a local Website server.

Firebug

Firebug- It is one of the most famous tools used by Web developers. It’s an extension of Mozilla Firefox that smooth editing, debugging & monitoring CSS, HTML & JavaScript on a live Website page. Firebug was developed by Joe Hewitt in year 2006.

Ember.js

Ember.js – It s an open source JavaScript framework. Developed by Yehuda Katz & released in December 2011, It is based on the model-view-controller pattern. It is one of the favourite JavaScript frameworks for single-page Website applications.
I have enter what, I rank as the top 10 open source tools here. But there are so many tools that are also famous in these categories like WampServer, Filezilla, JEdit, phpMyAdmin, YSlow, etc. Everyone has their own preference, Sometimes we love some tools Coz we are used to them.

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